July 15, 2017

Five people were killed, including a 9 year old boy, and 13 other people were wounded in separate shootings from Friday to Saturday in Chicago.
In the East Side neighborhood on the Southeast Side, the 9-year-old boy was inside an SUV about 11:15 p.m. Friday in the 3500 block of...

Five people were killed, including a 9 year old boy, and 13 other people were wounded in separate shootings from Friday to Saturday in Chicago.

In the East Side neighborhood on the Southeast Side, the 9-year-old boy was inside an SUV about 11:15 p.m. Friday in the 3500 block of East 97th Street when a gray sedan pulled up next to the SUV. Someone inside the sedan then opened fire, police said.

The 9-year-old boy was shot in the back. He was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

A 31-year-old man, who had also been inside the SUV, was shot in the back, face and chest. He was in critical condition at Advocate Christ Medical Center.

No one was in custody in the attack as of early Saturday.

About 4:15 a.m. Saturday, officers responded to the 4400 block of West Monroe Street in the West Garfield Park neighborhood for a call of a person shot. Officers found a 20-year-old man on the street with a gunshot wound to the head.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police did not release additional details about the fatal shooting.

He was standing outside in the 4600 block of South Washtenaw Avenue when someone inside a silver SUV opened fire, striking him multiple times. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Earlier Friday, one man was killed and two others were shot at 6:05 p.m. in the first block of West Pershing Road (39th Street), in the Stateway Gardens neighborhood, police said.

A 21-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen and shoulder, a 22-year-old was shot in the back and a 19-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to the head and hand, police said.

All were taken to Stroger Hospital. The 21-year-old man was later pronounced dead. The 22-year-old man was listed in serious condition. The 19-year-old’s condition had stabilized there, police said.

Minutes earlier, another fatal attack happened at 6:03 p.m. in the 4500 block of West Jackson Boulevard in the city’s West Garfield Park neighborhood.

A 20-year-old man who was shot in the chest was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he later died, police said.

Further details were not available.

In other shootings:

• Two people were shot about 4 a.m. in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side. Someone shot two men who were in the first block of North Leclaire Avenue, police said. A 29-year-old man was shot in the head, and he was in critical condition at Mount Sinai Hospital. A 27-year-old man was shot in the stomach, and his condition was stabilized at Mount Sinai Hospital.

• In the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side, a 26-year-old man was in good condition after he was shot multiple times in the right leg. He was walking in the 2800 block of West Division Street when someone inside a car shot him, police said. He then took himself to Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center.

• Just before 3 a.m., a 26-year-old man was shot in the right arm while he was driving in the 5000 block of West Washington Boulevard in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side, police said. He took himself to West Suburban Medical Center, where he was listed in good condition.

• A 24-year-old man was shot in both legs about 2:15 a.m. while he was in the 1800 block of North Leclaire Avenue in the North Austin neighborhood, police said. He was standing by his car when someone shot him. He took himself to Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center where his condition was stabilized.

• About 12:10 a.m. Saturday, a 41-year-old man was shot multiple times while he was in an alley in the 12800 block of South Peoria Street in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said. He took himself to Roseland Community Hospital, and he was later transferred in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center. Police had initially reported the shooting taking place in the 800 block of West Vermont Avenue.

• In the Lithuanian Plaza neighborhood on the South Side, a 44-year-old man was shot in the back and left arm about 11 p.m. while he was standing outside in the 6900 block of South Campbell Avenue, police said. His condition was stabilized at Mount Sinai Hospital.

• Just before 10:45 p.m., two men were shot while they were getting out of a car in the 10600 block of South Green Bay Avenue on the East Side, police said. The shooter was inside a white SUV. A 54-year-old man was shot in the face, and his condition was stabilized at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. A 49-year-old man was shot in the back, and he was taken in serious condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center.

• Another shooting happened around 3:10 p.m. in the 5200 block of South Calumet Avenue, the city’s Washington Park neighborhood. The victim, 27, was shot in the buttocks and was taken to an area hospital where he was in good condition, police said.

July 14, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) As the sun rose over Chatham early Friday, three residents stood at the edge of the crime scene trying to figure out if they knew the person who had been shot to death inside a vehicle. “It’s a beautiful block,” Jermont Montgomery said. “Two or three in the morning, I would be OK.…

July 14, 2017

SUN TIMES MEDIA WIRE An 18 year old woman has been charged with shooting two teenagers last month at 31st Street Beach on the South Side. Tynisha Blissit faces two counts each of attempted murder and aggravated battery, all felonies, according to Chicago Police. She was ordered held Thursday on $2 million bond. At 6:48…

July 14, 2017

It is happening again this year, the violence is raging in the streets of Chicago. So far, this year, 1616 people have been shot and 340 have been shot and killed on the Bloody Streets of Chicago. This video I just posted never got the play it truly deserved, we are on track to re...

It is happening again this year, the violence is raging in the streets of Chicago. So far, this year, 1616 people have been shot and 340 have been shot and killed on the Bloody Streets of Chicago. This video I just posted never got the play it truly deserved, we are on track to repeat this seen again this year down Michigan avenue.

I was physically spent after making the EFFECTS video. so, I took off ten days from the violence to regroup after a long tour. But, the time has come to go back! It’s hard to go back to the meat grinder violence, the longer I stay away the harder it is to go back…………. Going Back, Stay Tuned.

July 13, 2017

Willie Fry was sleeping in his Lawndale home early Thursday when he heard five to six gunshots. He didn’t immediately go outside, but his neighbors later told him the man who had been wounded by the gunshots ran into a random home in the 3100 block of West Lexington Street. “We don’t know who he…

July 13, 2017

When a 12 year old kid is arrested with a gun, you can’t blame the child. It’s the parents’ fault. The child police took into custody Tuesday night after finding him in a West Side alley with a handgun in his possession deserves our compassion. But more than that, he needs help — because his…

July 13, 2017

(WLS) A 17-year-old boy has been charged in the shooting death of a popular north suburban high school student at an apartment complex Saturday night. The boy is being charged with involuntary manslaughter as a juvenile. Angelique “Angie” Morris, 17, was shot about 1 a.m. Saturday at the Heritage Village Pointe Apartments in unincorporated Des…

July 13, 2017

AP) A 15 year old Illinois girl posted “I love you so much mom” on Facebook after allegedly shooting her mother in the head and trying to conceal the body by setting the house on fire. Police say the body of Peggy S. Schroeder, 53, of Morrison was found in a burning home Saturday in…

July 13, 2017

A security guard was run over by a robbery suspect behind the wheel of one of three cars that were stolen from the Ford plant on the Far South Side on Wednesday afternoon. The incident was one of at least six over the last few months from the lot near 126th Street and Burley Avenue…

July 11, 2017

The female Pace driver that witnessed the killing of a man being robbed and shot while being pushed into her Pace Van this morning was unhurt but deeply shaken in the incident. She recently lost two sons, 18-year-old Roy and 21-year-old James, who were killed Christmas night in a ...

The female Pace driver that witnessed the killing of a man being robbed and shot while being pushed into her Pace Van this morning was unhurt but deeply shaken in the incident. She recently lost two sons, 18-year-old Roy and 21-year-old James, who were killed Christmas night in a mass shooting at the family’s home in Chicago’s East Chatham neighborhood.

This lady unfortunately has witnessed 3 murders in an 8-month period, very sad. I was there and covered that shooting in Chatham on that warm Christmas Day.

A 50-year-old man was forced into a Pace van by someone who wanted to steal his cell phone before he was shot and killed in Chicago’s Avalon Park neighborhood, police said.

“It was a senseless killing. Senseless killing. Took my brother away from his family,” said Juanita White, the victim’s sister.

The victim, identified by relatives as Norman White, had stopped at a gas station parking lot near East 83rd Street and South Stony Island Avenue just after 3:15 a.m. Tuesday to say hello to a friend, a female Pace driver who had arrived minutes before. She was driving a Pace para-transit vehicle.

Juanita White said her brother, a father of four, used to be a Pace driver himself. He worked for the company until January of this year. Most recently, he worked a night job.

Relatives said White worked during the overnight hours, and likely saw his former colleague on his way home from work.

“He lives about five blocks away. So I’m thinking he was on his way home and ran into the lady and, you know, he’s protective, he was helping her, watching her bag while she ran into the gas station and the guy walked up and robbed him,” Juanita White said.

A man who tried to take his phone pushed him into the minivan and opened fire, police said. Mohamad Saif, a manager at the Citgo, said his employee heard the gunfire and called 911.

“He heard, I think he said four shots. He didn’t see anything. He didn’t even see the guy who got shot because he’s in the van,” Saif said.

White was struck three times – in his right arm, chest and back – and rushed in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he later died.

Surveillance cameras around the gas station caught the entire shooting on camera. Investigators are examining the footage and searching for the shooter.

The gas station is a popular stop for Pace drivers, who pick up their vans at a garage about a mile away.

“Sometimes they park, you know, buy stuff, use the bathroom. Hang around for five, 10 minutes, relax, and leave,” Saif said.

Area South detectives are handling the investigation. No one is in custody.

White’s neighbors expressed their disbelief upon hearing the news of his death.

“He didn’t do nothing but work< ' said Frank Bailey, neighbor. "He would go to work about one o'clock in the morning, get off at about 11 o'clock."
Article Org: abc7chicago.com

July 11, 2017

(SUN TIMES MEDIA WIRE) – A woman was shot to death while she was sleeping early Tuesday in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side, police said. Someone fired shots into a home at 5:26 a.m. in the 5200 block of South King Drive, where the 40-year-old woman was sleeping, according to Chicago Police.…

July 11, 2017

Three people were killed and eight were wounded, including in an attack downtown, in city shootings from Monday to Tuesday morning, police said. In the most recent homicide, a 50-year-old man was shot when he was standing in the parking lot of a gas station in the Marynook neighborhood, and an offender pushed him into…

July 11, 2017

(WLS) A 50 year old man was shot and killed early Tuesday morning inside a Pace para-transit van in an attempted armed robbery on Chicago’s South Side, police said. The victim was talking to the woman driving the van in a gas station parking lot near East 83rd Street and South Stony Island Avenue just…

July 11, 2017

Three Chicago Police officers on Monday pleaded not guilty to charges in an alleged conspiracy to derail the investigation of a fellow officer who shot Laquan McDonald. Officers Joseph Walsh, David March and Thomas Gaffney made their first court appearances Monday since being indicted last month on charges stemming from the 2014 death of 17-year-old…

July 11, 2017

FOX 32 NEWS, Facebook video showing a young child brandishing what appears to be a handgun on Chicago’s South Side is raising new concerns about kids and guns. The video shows three young boys walking at a shopping center at 63rd and Halsted. A driver is heard taunting the boys, telling one of them to…

July 10, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) Forty one people in Chicago were wounded and three were killed in a weekend that saw several multi victim shootings, an attack on a popular South Side beach and an officer involved shooting that fatally wounded a suspect who first shot at police. Year to date, 2016 recorded 2,113 shootings compared with 1,924…

July 10, 2017

(WLS) A teenage girl was fatally shot early Saturday morning in northwest suburban Des Plaines, police said. The girl, identified as 17-year-old Angie Morris, was shot in the 9900-block of Linda Lane around 1 a.m. Morris had texted her new cell phone number to her sister, Kattlin Humphrey, just a few hours before she was…

July 10, 2017

(WLS) Three people were shot at Rainbow Beach in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood Sunday night, police said. The shooting happened in the 3100-block of East 77th Street at 7:25 p.m. A man walked up to three men and opened fire, striking all three before running away from the scene, police said. A 15-year-old boy was…

July 9, 2017

A man was fatally shot by Chicago Police officers Sunday morning in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side. About 11 a.m., the man’s parents went to the 25th District police station to report a domestic situation, Chicago Police Deputy Chief Al Nagode told reporters at the scene. The woman told officers that her…

July 9, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) One man was fatally shot during an argument on the South Side, and at least 15 others were wounded in separate attacks from Saturday morning to early Sunday. An argument late Saturday in the Englewood neighborhood left one man dead when it escalated to a shooting. Just before 11:20 p.m., a 27-year-old man…

July 9, 2017

(WLS) At least seven people were injured, including four Chicago police officers, after a shooting and crash on the West Side Saturday night. Police said three men were driving in the 4200-block of West Roosevelt Road in the North Lawndale neighborhood when another car pulled up and someone inside started shooting at the men at…

July 9, 2017

A 6-year-old was among two people shot Saturday night at a park in south suburban Markham. The shooting happened at Roesner Park, 16053 Richmond Ave., according to Markham Police Chief Mack Sanders. The 6-year-old suffered a graze wound to the head, while a 37-year-old was shot in the leg, he said. The child has since…

July 8, 2017

(Chicago Tribune) After a 15-year-old boy was grazed in the head in a shooting early Saturday, a man stood near the ambulance and suggested officials throw holy water on the Roseland block. “This block has death on it,” he said. “They need to put holy water on it.” The 15-year-old boy had been walking about…

July 8, 2017

(WLS) Neighbors in the Back of the Yard neighborhood woke up Saturday morning after the first campout to curb gun violence in the city. Several other events are planned in areas hardest hit by crime. The campout kicked off a summer-long program to curb violence in some of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods. At about 5…

July 7, 2017

(SUN TIMES MEDIA WIRE) – Three people were killed and eight wounded in separate shootings on Thursday across Chicago, mostly on the South and West sides. Following a historically violent Fourth of July holiday weekend that ended with more than 100 people shot, the city is approaching 1,900 gunshot victims on the year, according to…

July 6, 2017

In an effort to curb violence, neighbors will camp out overnight on “hot blocks” plagued with gun violence across the South Side this summer. With help from Pilsen non-profit The Resurrection Project, 40 Chicago youth will lead the #IncreaseThePeace violence prevention program, which aims to stop shootings through mass camp outs on blocks routinely affected…

July 5, 2017

Two men were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting early Wednesday in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said. They were standing on the sidewalk at 1:17 a.m. in front of a house in the 11000 block of South Eberhart when several males in a black SUV opened fire…

July 5, 2017

It has been a violent holiday weekend in Chicago, and police worked on ways to crack down on the violence. It started overnight with police raids. Police say they selected the targets of those raids carefully. They’re who police say are in some cases leaders of gangs or people delegated to doing the shooting. The…

July 5, 2017

Thirteen people were killed and 87 others were wounded in shootings across Chicagoin a bloody Fourth of July weekend between Friday afternoon and Wednesday morning. Last year’s Independence Day weekend, which was one day shorter than this year’s, ended with 66 people shot, four of them fatally — a total that actually stoked cautious optimism…

July 4, 2017

At least six people were wounded in shootings on the South and West sides on Monday, police said. The attacks Monday bring to 57 the number of people shot during the extended holiday weekend. Seven of those shot have died, according to data compiled by the Tribune. In the most recent shooting, a 60-year-old man…

July 4, 2017

SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE – Timothy Gordon and Jayton Dorsey sprayed the front of an Englewood home with more than 40 gunshots Friday, killing two men who were on the porch, and a man inside who was struck by a stray bullet, Cook County prosecutors said. After unleashing the fatal volley of shots, Gordon, 19, and…

July 4, 2017

An FBI-issued SUV stolen when an agent left it running at a gas station early Monday was found about 2 miles away later in the day, but investigators didn’t immediately know if weapons stolen with it were inside, authorities said. At 1 a.m., the FBI vehicle, a white 2014 Chevrolet Equinox containing several firearms and…

July 3, 2017

(WLS) An FBI agent’s vehicle, which contained several firearms and tactical gear, was stolen early Monday on Chicago’s Near West Side, the FBI said. The theft happened at a gas station near Morgan Street and Jackson Boulevard at about 1 a.m., Chicago police said. Police said a 32-year-old man left his white Chevy Equinox running…

July 3, 2017

(WLS) The Fourth of July weekend in Chicago had violent start with six people dead and 46 hurt. Among the injured was the son of a Cook County judge. Duriel Lyke is recovering at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn and is lucky to be alive after the 28-year-old man was shot in the…

July 3, 2017

One person was killed and at least 10 others were wounded in Chicago shootings from Sunday afternoon to Monday morning, police said. A 39-year-old man was fatally shot in the head in the Illinois Medical District neighborhood about 11:35 p.m. Sunday and pronounced dead on the scene, police said. Police responded to a call of…

July 3, 2017

(WLS) A person was shot and killed by Chicago police in the Lawndale neighborhood Saturday night and two weapons, including an AK-47, were recovered, police said. Two Chicago police officers responded to a call of shots fired in the 2200-block of South Kostner Avenue at about 10:45 police said. When they arrived, officers saw someone…

July 3, 2017

At least 49 people were shot across Chicago, four of them fatally, by Sunday night of the Fourth of July weekend. Last year’s Independence Day weekend ended with 66 people shot — a total that actually stoked cautious optimism with the lowest death toll for the July 4 weekend in nearly a decade. On Saturday,…

July 1, 2017

WARNING GRAPHIC: This video you are about to see took me 4 years of filming shootings in dam near every neighborhood in Chicago. Please remember these people I highlighted in this video next time you see a shooting on the news. This short film says it all, I have no words left to ...

WARNING GRAPHIC: This video you are about to see took me 4 years of filming shootings in dam near every neighborhood in Chicago. Please remember these people I highlighted in this video next time you see a shooting on the news. This short film says it all, I have no words left to say except HELP me Please share this video everywhere and anywhere you can. It is in fact my way of fighting back for all the Children of Chicago. Thanks

July 1, 2017

Nine people, including five teens, were wounded in separate attacks from Thursday to early Friday on the city’s West and South sides. Two people were critically injured just before 3:40 a.m. Friday in the Englewood neighborhood near a memorial for a 16-year-old boy who was fatally shot earlier this month on the same block, police…